PUT IT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW showed the early promise of Parton as a songwriter. Written as a teenager, Put it Off Until Tomorrow was originally composed for Bill Phillips (Parton sang uncredited harmony vocals on his top-10 1966 recording) before she signed to work with Porter Wagoner's band and appear on his weekly television show. The song appeared on their first duet album, 1968's Just Between You and Me. Parton played with Wagoner until February 1974 when she bought her way out of the contract for £500,000. In 2008, Parton told the Los Angeles Times that the two had begun to clash badly, adding: "I don't mean this in a bad way . . . but he was very much a male chauvinist pig. He was in charge, and it was his show, but he was also very strong-willed. That's why we fought like crazy, because I wouldn't put up with a bunch of stuff."